>the protagonist is supposedly the one writing the book

>The protagonist is a sickly young man from a well-off family who kills himself at the novel's climax

>>8182077
The human stain pulled it off nicely

ulysses, technically.

Was it supposed to be so obvious in The Plague?

>>8182077
>One of the main characters is schizophrenic.

>>8182077
Ada was pretty good, though.

>the narrotor is the man that the protagonist talks too at the end and I was too dumb to understand that and would have missed it if I didn't read a review afterwords

>>8182117
Goethe is some real overrated shit

Napoleonic Twilight novels!

>>8183371
*talks to

>>8183236
Probably

>>8182077
>protagonist is writing the book
>protagonist dies at the end

>>8183363
How is that a problem. I'm reading kafka's metamorphosis and the whole thinking he's a bug sounds like a delusion he has. Words and phrases like Losing his mind, anxious, and disposition appear early on.

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>>8182077
I'll do you one better
>Book is just preinternet creepypasta

>>8182077
>the opening scene is halfway through the book's plotline

>>8184225

How do you feel if the opening scene was from the viewpoint of someone at the very end?

>>8184225
What do you mean?

>the reader is writing the book

>>8184236
In media res??

>>8184225
En media res works well senpai

>>8184236
>>8184254
>>8184261
Referring to the first "in media res" example structure here

>>8184261
It's really hit and miss. Too many authors essentially make it *Record scratch* So I guess you're wondering how I got here? Funny story...

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>>8184266
Here, I mean

Can be absolute patrician if done right, but its one of those things that will hardly ever be done right

>>8182077

>In the beginning the protagonist created the heavens and the earth

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>>8185285
>the protagonist comes again to judge the living and the dead
>after the book ends

>>8182117
Tfw I was about to write about this